Moving Pictures at an Exhibition

Up-and-comers take on cinematic art at SMoCA

Humans have plopped their collective butt cheeks down to watch moving imagery for more than 100 years. That means weve got some mad skills of observation. Camera angles, lighting, and framed shots communicate an entire story. Were so accustomed to reading this visual language that we dont even think about the translation.

Find this idea fascinating? Then pop into Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts southwestNET: film and video: Looking Through the Other End of a Telescope exhibition. The show includes video and image installations by up-and-coming American artists Jon Fisher, Jeff Shore, Aaron Rothman, Mungo Thomson, and Jennifer West, all who experiment, dismantle, and overanalyze the medium of moving pictures.